re: When teaching your kids moments go wrong

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Turns out I forgot to make sure/inspect that the OLD O-Ring off the old oil filter came off

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The old double gasket! Learned about that working at a tire shop when I watched the other young guy make that mistake on a brand new 2005 Mustang GT. He cranked it up and oil just blew out everywhere. Luckily it didn’t get down the street.

Not necessarily a teaching moment but still some teenage dumbassery, in my parents’ neighborhood you could get air from one of the cross streets if you were doing about 75+. So we’d haul arse down the main drag in a subdivision to get air and we’d even sometimes do it in the rain. I still shake my head thinking about how dumb that was and how much could have gone wrong.

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Let me know when you drain all the fluid out of you transmission and put twice as much oil in the motor that you are supposed to.

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This was my mistake when doing my first oil change with my first car. Good to hear I'm not alone!

My dad once drove his truck to the oil lube shop to have the oil changed in my moms car.

Just do the George Carlin "cat" thing and tell them, "I meant to do that".